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HELEN SPENCEEADMITS MURDERParoled Less Than Week f11' For One Death, SecondislsustienDeath ConfessedLittlp Rock, June lf.-(/P-()n pa- I * role for less than a week, Helen Spence, 20 year old White river country girl sent to prison for the sensational courtroom slaying of the man on trial for the murder of her father, was held in jail here today for Arkansas county officers following her allegedRCU!1eapr00confession to a second slaying.Police said the comely brunette | employed as a waitress here sinceulidtuthher release after serving 1*lt; months of a two-year term, called for chief of detectives J. A. pit-cock at headquarters last night ^ and confessed to him that she shot Jim Bohots. Greek restaurant owner to death in his automobile0Corthiat DeWitt. February 5. 1932. because he had attempted to force j ^ his attentions on her and had threatened “my boy friend.” Whenij. Bohots’ body was found slumped in the seat of his automobile several miles from DeWitt, the Spence girl was questioned, hu was released when officers were* unable to connect her with the • rime.thtog*cc\indiladlt;erThe Bohots slaying occurred while the Spence girl was awaiting her second trial of Jack Worls whom she shot to death in a crowded courtroom at DeWitt as the jurv was retiring in his trial for the murder of her father, Cicero SLpence, a merman. Her attorneys appealed the five-year jlt;Uirsentence she received at her first tria] and the supreme court granted a second trial.1tlci“The reason 1 am confessing is that my mind has been bothered,” police quoted her as saying. “It’s a matter of conscience. I could j p dismiss the thought during the day time, but at night, it haunted me.oabnI could get the electric chair, hut I don’t believe ^they’ll give me more than life.”
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Jun 16, 1933
Page 5
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